Recent content by LilEngineeringBoy

I searched but couldn't find a recent thread... Got carried away at a Black Friday sale on hardwood flooring and ordered 850 sq ft, underlayment, and trim. Now, I need to find a floor nail gun to install it. I have a 33 gal 110v air compressor and a lot of DeWalt 20V max batteries. I was...

The lady commented she was tired of kicking/bruising shins/stubbing toes on the hitch mount bike rack sitting on the floor in the garage. This one has 2 arms that hold 4 bikes. I also have a 3 bike wheel tray one. I am thinking of getting a couple of 6" long, 1 1/4" bare receivers...

Just to chime in - when bikes get below a certain level, they start using random standards. Like the threading can be different, they might not be metric bolts, etc. If it says Shimano, Sun Tour or SRAM, they are probably consistent. Anything from a bike shop is going to be standardized...

If you can order and wait for it to come in, Detailed Image (https://www.detailedimage.com/) and Auto Geek (https://www.autogeek.net/) are great sources for all the detailing stuff you may ever want. Depending on how much you care about the vehicle, real car wash soap, a wash mit, a good drying...

Kinda seems like there is a balance...My corded drill I got in 30 years ago works fine. My NiCad cordless drill does not and got replaced with a LiIon one because I needed more than 5 minutes out of it. My air tools are getting replaced over time by LiIon as well. I don't mind upgrading a...

They are very cost effective for me, they have a great website that is easy to order from, and the quality so far has been fine for my purposes. For less than $50, I got 3/8" tall and short impacts I've been using with a DeWalt 20v impact. I've been doing a lot of suspension work on a few...

I searched and didn't see any posts - is the IR merger with Gardner Denver going to change anything with tool availability or branding?

Interesting thread for a year old. When I was 14, I got the Sears Craftsman 2XX pc "mechanic's tool set." Tall and short mostly 6pt 1/4", 3/8", and 1/2" SAE & Metric sockets, screw drivers, and a set of SAE & Metric combo wrenches. That got me through oil changes, brake work, some suspension...

Yeah, put a grade 8 bolts from Lowes through the mounting ears and put nuts on each side. Tightening the bolt threads the nut pushing the bolt into the rotor. Turn it, get ****, spin the rotor, turn the bolt some more...rinse, repeat, and boom the thing pops off. I use this a lot on...

So I am a bit on the other end of things...I went to a community college, transferred to a university in an engineering program, worked as a manufacturing engineer and then went to grad school in industrial engineering on a stipend (you are a professor's slave, they pay your tuition/stipend)...

The adjustment is rough - you have to keep adjusting the locking screw as you rotate the handle. Rotating the handle isn't the smooth buttery feeling people like. I have 2 1/2" and 1 3/8" and they all measure on the money. My oldest one sits in the track tool box for swapping wheels and brake...

I think I have one set (like my original Craftsman set from when I was 15) that goes down to like 4mm that I keep in the wrench rack in the cart. The other sets don't go down that low without big skips and the ones that are below 10mm are in the basement in the bicycle workshop.

The air vs. cordless are just different tools for different jobs. If I am at home in my garage and its a big project, sure fire up the compressor and run air tools. If I am at the track, at the pick-a-part, or a road side (not even my stupid trailer), I appreciate the portability. For the...

My Harbor Freight couplers started to corrode (more for not being used than heavy usage) so I ordered Milton couplers. When I installed them, I used Permatex 80632 Thread Sealant with PTFE. They sat for a couple days on the kitchen counter (sorry honey) and they seem fine now. I didn't do a...

I didn't have 5 posts so it wouldn't let me include the link: https://www.tekton.com/long-ratchets